Have you ever gotten near a bakery and smell the bread baking? Or maybe you passed a steakhouse, and you could just smell the aroma coming out? These smells had spilled out of the buildings where they were being generated. The outside air was then filled with the smell.
The Word talks a lot about our prayers, praise and sacrifices being a smell. We see this in verses throughout the Word.
Philippians 4:18 (KJV) an odour of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, wellpleasing to God
Revelation 5:8 (KJV) And when he had taken the book, the four beasts and four and twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, having every one of them harps, and golden vials full of odours, which are the prayers of saints.
Revelation 8:3-4 (KJV) And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer; and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne. And the smoke of the incense, which came with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the angel’s hand.
Genesis 8:20-21 (KJV) And Noah builded an altar unto the Lord; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar. And the Lord smelled a sweet savour.
We also read how there was supposed to be an incense burning as a perpetual incense before the Lord throughout your generations (Exodus 30:8 KJV).
How do we accomplish this today? Paul would write to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service (Romans 12:1 KJV).
By actively living for God. By praying, praising, giving, sacrificing we are being a living sacrifice. We are offering a sweet smell up to God. So remember the next time you pass that steakhouse and smell that grill going that we too are generating a smell that heaven smells.
Psalm 141:2 KJV
Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense; and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.
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